A look at the USMNT’s Olympic Qualifying roster, plus should soccer have long shot specialists, does Pellegrino Matarazzo deserve more credit, and more listener questions
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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Taylor, Ryan, and Joe fill your ears with some analysis of Jason Kreis' pre-Olympic Qualifying training camp roster and answer your lovely listener questions.
1) Should soccer take a page out of basketball’s book and have long shot specialists?
2) What happens when a referee gets injured? Are there substitute referees?
3) What’s going on with Sebastian Soto? Plus, Olympic Qualifying chat!
4) Which teams were judged too quickly and have largely defied early-season talking points?
5) Do we talk about American manager Pellegrino Matarazzo enough?
6) What random soccer player or soccer moment lives in your head "rent free"?
7) Would aligning their schedule with major European leagues help MLS become a selling league?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some |
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| 0:25.9 | People's pension. Now that's a pension with purpose. |
| 0:29.7 | Visit people'spension.com.uk forward slash pays you. You. Welcome to the Total Soccero! |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:57.7 | My name is Ryan Bailey, and today we are taking your questions and attempting to provide competent answers for them. |
| 1:05.6 | Joining me to do so as a man who never wants to see Man United play in the fog at Selhurst Park ever again. Taylor Rockwell. I mean, it had a spooky vibe, so that was kind of fun. But yes, I don't really need to see any sort of game like that ever again. No, thank you. I was quite excited to put that game on, uh, on a Wednesday afternoon, Tatea, and I put it on, and I don't often turn off a game, but that one I did. |
| 1:28.7 | Is that the equivalent of walking out of a movie, like turning off a game for you? Yeah. I've only walked out of one movie, either. It was What Just Happened featuring Robert De Niro. The title was very revealing of my feeling towards it. And, yeah, this was similar. I don't like to give up on things like that, but this was like, you know, as you get older, the years get shorter. |
| 1:28.5 | I don't like to give up on things like that. But this was like, you know, as you get older, the years get shorter. I don't have time for this fog game. No, thank you. I did the slow swivel in my chair because I had it like on to the background when I was doing work at my desk. And I was watching the game and then slowly around halftime turned back to just working on things and had it on and did not look at the screen again really because I didn't need to because nothing really happened in that second half. There we'll all carry on with the rest of our lives and never mention that game again. And joining Taylor and I is a man who always comes up clutch like a Martin Braithwaite 95th minute goal. It's Joe Lowry. |
| 2:18.9 | Hello, Ryan. |
| 2:13.6 | Hello, Taylor. I am honored to have that introduction. Yet again, Ryan favors me in his intros, and I will always appreciate it. That's true. I've gone negative with Taylor again. He doesn't want to watch a game, but whereas Joe is more like a heroic comeback win. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 2:34.5 | And to be fair, Ryan, what I thought you were going to do was go with the, We won't talk about that game again and then introduce Joe using that game again. So really I'm coming out on top here and I'm good with it. My therapist is going to hear all about this and my relationship with you too. I'm sure at some point. That's fair. I look forward to meeting that person then being like, oh, you're Taylor. |
| 2:52.1 | That's never a good thing you never want to go that oh dear oh dear |
| 2:58.5 | so i've got a sincere question guys but based on that manionite game which i promise never to |
| 3:03.2 | mention again but i am doing it within me a second um has this season actually been any good when you look at it on the hotel? |
| 3:11.1 | Like, maybe I'm preferring specifically to the Premier League here. |
| 3:15.5 | If you look at, say, like, the start of the season, |
| 3:16.9 | we had that Leeds four, three game, |
| 3:18.5 | and else I think even Full of Arsenal was quite good on the opening day. |
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